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Ohio Supreme Court Justice Calls for Review of All on State's Death Row

By Steve Hall

"Death Row cases should be reviewed, justice says," is the title of Alan Johnson's report.  It appeared in Saturday's Columbus Dispatch.The "father of Ohio's death penalty," Supreme Court Justice Paul E. Pfeifer, says all current Death Row cases should be reviewed to see which ones warrant execution -- and which should be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole."There are probably few people in Ohio that are proud of the fact we are executing people at the same pace as Texas," Pfeifer told The Dispatch. His comments came the day after the lethal injection of Michael Beuke, the fifth Ohioan executed this year and the 38th since 1999."When the next governor is sworn in," Pfeifer said, "I think the state would be well served if a blue-ribbon panel was appointed to look at all those cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).